Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
Interpretation
Make the most of your youth to create fond memories for the future.
This quote emphasizes the importance of utilizing the vibrancy and potential of youth to establish joyful experiences that will be cherished later in life. It highlights the fleeting nature of youth and encourages proactive engagement in lifeβs opportunities, ensuring that when one grows older, they can reflect back on their youth with happiness rather than regret.
In practice
In a graduation speech about making the most of opportunities.
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:_x000D_ _x000D_ The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;_x000D_ _x000D_ So, when affection yields discourse, it seems_x000D_ _x000D_ The bottom is but shallow whence they come._x000D_ _x000D_ They that are rich in words, in words discover
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
If she undervalues me, _x000D_ _x000D_ What care I how fair she be?
If all the world and love were young,_x000D_ _x000D_ And truth in every shepherd's tongue,_x000D_ _x000D_ These pretty pleasures might me move_x000D_ _x000D_ To live with thee, and be thy love.
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.
People are reasonably good at estimating how things add up, but for compounding, which involved repeated multiplication, we fail to appreciate how quickly things grow.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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